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A flag is tethered to the WWII infantryman sculpture following the announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden at the Veterans Memorial on May 2, on the Delaney Park Strip in Anchorage, Alaska. Erik Hill/The Anchorage Daily News/AP

Police officers are seen during a routine patrol in Terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport in London, on May 3. Security personnel remain vigilant following the death of Osama bin Laden. Steve Parsons/PA/AP

New Mexico State University student Ryan Hayes spreads his message about Osama bin Laden's death as he drives the streets of Las Cruces, N.M., on May 2. 'I was super excited,' he said upon hearing about the death of the leader of al Qaeda, who claimed responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Norm Dettlaff/Las Cruces Sun-News/AP

Arab Americans celebrate the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden in Dearborn, Mich., on May 2. President Barack Obama announced in the evening on May 1, that Osama bin Laden was killed in an operation led by the United States. Carlos Osorio/AP

Ethel Miles, of Green Cove Springs (l.) and her neighbor Janet Waters watch as a holiday-themed tree she decorated in Christmas of 2001 burns, on May 2, at her home in Green Cove Springs, Fla. Miles kept the tree, vowing to burn it upon the capture or death of Osama bin Laden. Kelly Jordan/The Florida Times-Union/AP

Elijah Stevens (c.) of Poughkeepsie, N.Y, visits Ground Zero with his daughter Caitlin (l.) and wife Stephanie to show their support for the US military and celebrate Osama Bin Laden's death, on May 2, in New York. John Minchillo/AP

A visitor, wearing an Arizona State University Pat Tillman football jersey, exits the Arizona 9/11 Memorial, passes a makeshift sign attached to the memorial about the death of Osama bin Laden, on May 2, in Phoenix. Tillman was a football player at ASU and played briefly for the Arizona Cardinals before joining the military after 9/11, and was killed in action in Afghanistan fighting for his country in 2004. Ross D. Franklin/AP

Visitors to the temporary memorial to United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., overlook the crash site on May 2. Gene J. Puskar/AP

Jeff Ray (r.) and Jan Ray of Shanksville, Pa., attach a sign to the fence overlooking the crash site of United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., on May 2. Gene J. Puskar/AP

With the new One World Trade Center building in the background, a large, jubilant crowd reacts to the news of Osama bin Laden's death at the corner of Church and Vesey Streets, adjacent to Ground Zero, during the early morning hours of May 2 in New York. Jason DeCrow/AP

Crowds celebrate on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington on May 2 after President Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed. Charles Dharapak/AP

A woman reacts to the news of Osama bin Laden's death at the corner of Church and Vesey Streets, adjacent to Ground Zero, on May 2 in New York. Jason DeCrow/AP

A man holds a sign in reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden at the construction site of the former World Trade Center towers in New York on May 2. Eric Thayer/Reuters

People cheer outside the White House over the death of Osama bin Laden in Washington on May 1. Jim Young/Reuters

More than 2,000 Illinois State University students in Normal, Illinois, loft each other through the air as they celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden on May 2. The Pantagraph/David Proeber/AP

Douglas Sidialo, who lost his sight in the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi, prays at the memorial remembering the victims in Nairobi, Kenya, on May 2. Osama bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of people, was slain in his hideout in Pakistan on May 1. Khalil Senosi/AP

Revelers celebrate during early morning hours in Washington on May 2 following an announcement by President Obama that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight with US forces in Pakistan. Hyungwon Kang/Reuters

People burn a photograph of Osama bin Laden as they celebrate his death in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on May 2. Stringer/Reuters

People cheer and wave flags from a passing car on the 'Freedom Bridge' just outside Joint Base Lewis-McChord on May 1 near Tacoma, Wash., after they heard the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed. Ted S. Warren/AP

Indonesian painter S. Wito wipes his painting of Osama bin Laden and former President George Bush at his street-side studio in Jakarta, Indonesia, on May 2. Achmad Ibrahim/AP

Crowds gather outside the White House in Washington on May 2 to celebrate after President Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

A man shows an extra edition of a Japanese newspaper in Tokyo on May 2 reporting that Osama bin Laden was killed in an operation led by US forces. Shizuo Kambayashi/AP

Rachel Mueller, who is married to US Army Staff Sgt. Kurt Mueller, who returned last year from a deployment to Iraq, holds a copy of the Wall Street Journal with a photo of Osama bin Laden on it it as she waves a flag on the 'Freedom Bridge' just outside Joint Base Lewis-McChord, near Tacoma, Wash., on May 1. Ted S. Warren/AP

Dustin Fredrickson (c.) holds up an American flag as he stands on a fire truck among people gathered in New York's Times Square reacting to the news of Osama bin Laden's death on May 2. Tina Fineberg/AP

Osama Bin Laden, the late Al Qaeda leader, appears on a layout for an FBI poster after he was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in June 1999, in connection with the bombings of the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. FBI/AP/File

Smoke from the remains of New York's World Trade Center shrouds lower Manhattan as a lone seagull flies overhead in a photograph taken across New York Harbor from Jersey City, New Jersey, in this September 12, 2001 file picture. Ray Stubblebine/Reuters/File

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Bin Laden's widows and children are being held at an undisclosed house in Islamabad. Pakistan's Interior minister said they would be placed under house arrest for illegally entering and living in the country.

BySaeed Shah, McClatchy NewspapersMarch 9, 2012

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Pakistani authorities said Thursday that they had filed charges against Osama bin Laden's three widows as an investigation revealed fresh details of the dead Al Qaeda leader's family life in Pakistan, including suspicions by two of the women that the oldest wife would betray him.